We’re thrilled to announce that we are the official underwear supplier for the 2020 Australian Olympic and Paralympic teams! We will be behind these awesome humans (literally) all the way as they take on the world. Tokyo 2020, here we come!

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Ken Wallace is a sprint canoeist who has been competing internationally since 2000, representing Australia at three Olympics, winning gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics and several World Championships. Following his success at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, he was named the 2008 Australian Institute of Sport Sportsman of the Year, the 2008 Gold Coast Sportsman of the Year and the 2008 Sydney Sunday Telegraph Sportsman of the Year. He also received an Order of Australia Medal in 2009. After taking time off in 2018 to recharge after some health issues and to spend time with his family, Wallace is back and in training for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to come back refreshed, fitter and stronger for the next season.

Para-athlete-turned-Para-alpine-skier-turned-Para-cyclist-turned-Para-rower Jessica Gallagher knows how to keep us on our toes. She first made history in 2010, when she became the first female athlete from Australia to win a medal at the Paralympic Winter Games, and again in 2016, when she became the first Australian to win a medal at the Paralympic Summer and Winter Games. Jessica won her second Paralympic medal at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, before transitioning to Para-cycling and winning one bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, and one world title and four minor medals at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships. She is now working towards qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Para-rowing.

Inspired by legendary Australian athlete Cathy Freeman, Morgan Mitchell began athletics in 2000, igniting her passion for sprint running and sports including Basketball, Swimming and Netball. Her passion for sprinting is one which has seen her represent Australia on the global stage, joining the 2014 UK Commonwealth Games and placing 4th in the 4x400m relay. Her skills took her to the 2016 Rio Olympic where she placed 8th in the 4x400m relay. Mitchell holds the 2017 title for fastest women’s 400m time at 52.8 seconds as well as placing 1st in the 2017 Nitro Athletics 2x300m mixed and mixed distance medley relay. In 2019, Mitchell decided to switch this up by focusing on the 800m and is working on improving her personal best each day for the upcoming 2020 Olympic Games.

It would come as a surprise to most that Para-rower Jed Altschwager did very little in the way of exercise before entering the world of Para-sport. Surfing was the extent of his fitness regime, but after losing his lower leg in a workplace accident when an excavator crushed his left foot, Jed developed an interest in how the human body works. Enter CrossFit. By mid-2016, Jed was looking for his next physical challenge. He was approached by Paralympics Australia Talent Identification Manager Tim Matthews, who had seen a video of Jed competing on a rowing machine and recognised his potential in Para-sport. Enter Para-rowing. With the 2019 World Rowing Championships just around the corner, Jed is eager to prove why he deserves a place on the 2020 Australian Paralympic Team. He is in a fiercely competitive category, so it is not going to be easy, but he is ready to meet the challenge head-on.

Having only started wheelchair racing two years before making his Paralympic debut, two-time Paralympian Rheed McCracken is on track to become a legend of his sport. Although he was always determined to pursue a career in Para-athletics, it was a chance meeting with Channel 7 personality David ‘Kochie’ Koch that propelled Rheed into Paralympic stardom. Seated next to Kochie on a plane, the two struck up a conversation about Paralympic wheelchair racing great Kurt Fearnley, and Kochie, who has known Kurt for years, offered Rheed the opportunity of a lifetime when he challenged him to compete against Kurt in a wheelchair race in Sydney. Not long after, Rheed won one gold and four silver medals at the IWAS World Games and caught the attention of Australian selectors for the London 2012 Paralympic Games. This year Rheed is among Australia’s top contenders for a world title at the 2019 World Para-athletics Championships in Dubai, UAE. With this in mind, Rheed says that success is so much more than winning gold - it is about giving every race a “red hot crack.”

Chloe Esposito is quickly establishing herself as one of Australia’s rising sportswomen and inspirational game-changer. Pentathlon is no doubt in Esposito’s bloodline, with her father representing Australia in the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games and introducing her to the sport when she was only 10 years old In late 2018, Esposito had a hamstring operation weeks before she went onto win two world medals and ranked number 1 female heptathlete in the world. This was not her first major operation. In 2016, Esposito suffered from an Achilles tendon injury before creating Australian Olympic history by winning the modern pentathlon and setting a new Olympic record in Rio de Janeiro. We are behind Chloe all the way as she trains for Tokyo 2020.

Ashleigh McConnell etched her name in Paralympic history at her first Paralympic Games in 2016, when she and her women’s 4x100m freestyle relay teammates - Ellie Cole, Maddison Elliott and Lakeisha Patterson - won gold in world record time. Now training under two-time Olympian Kenrick Monk, Ashleigh is fully focused on the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. She is aiming to win an individual gold medal, and with years of experience racing alongside the best Para-swimmers in the world, she is certainly in with a chance.

Following in his family’s footsteps, Max Esposito took up Modern Pentathlon at the age of 13 after playing a variety of sports as a youngster. He won gold at both the 2013 Oceania Championships in Kazakhstan and at the 2014 International Youth A Championships in Great Britain giving him the opportunity to get his first taste of the Olympics at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Games. Max made a fantastic debut at the Rio Games finishing seventh overall. Despite finishing 29th in the fencing ranking round, he made up significant ground across the swim and the show jumping coming into the combined event in 17th place and crossing the finish line seventh. Now he is 22 and ready take on the Olympics next year.

Ken Wallace is a sprint canoeist who has been competing internationally since 2000, representing Australia at three Olympics, winning gold at the 2008 Summer Olympics and several World Championships. Following his success at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing, he was named the 2008 Australian Institute of Sport Sportsman of the Year, the 2008 Gold Coast Sportsman of the Year and the 2008 Sydney Sunday Telegraph Sportsman of the Year. He also received an Order of Australia Medal in 2009. After taking time off in 2018 to recharge after some health issues and to spend time with his family, Wallace is back and in training for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to come back refreshed, fitter and stronger for the next season.

Para-athlete-turned-Para-alpine-skier-turned-Para-cyclist-turned-Para-rower Jessica Gallagher knows how to keep us on our toes. She first made history in 2010, when she became the first female athlete from Australia to win a medal at the Paralympic Winter Games, and again in 2016, when she became the first Australian to win a medal at the Paralympic Summer and Winter Games. Jessica won her second Paralympic medal at the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, before transitioning to Para-cycling and winning one bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games, and one world title and four minor medals at the UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships. She is now working towards qualification for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games in Para-rowing.

Inspired by legendary Australian athlete Cathy Freeman, Morgan Mitchell began athletics in 2000, igniting her passion for sprint running and sports including Basketball, Swimming and Netball. Her passion for sprinting is one which has seen her represent Australia on the global stage, joining the 2014 UK Commonwealth Games and placing 4th in the 4x400m relay. Her skills took her to the 2016 Rio Olympic where she placed 8th in the 4x400m relay. Mitchell holds the 2017 title for fastest women’s 400m time at 52.8 seconds as well as placing 1st in the 2017 Nitro Athletics 2x300m mixed and mixed distance medley relay. In 2019, Mitchell decided to switch this up by focusing on the 800m and is working on improving her personal best each day for the upcoming 2020 Olympic Games.

It would come as a surprise to most that Para-rower Jed Altschwager did very little in the way of exercise before entering the world of Para-sport. Surfing was the extent of his fitness regime, but after losing his lower leg in a workplace accident when an excavator crushed his left foot, Jed developed an interest in how the human body works. Enter CrossFit. By mid-2016, Jed was looking for his next physical challenge. He was approached by Paralympics Australia Talent Identification Manager Tim Matthews, who had seen a video of Jed competing on a rowing machine and recognised his potential in Para-sport. Enter Para-rowing. With the 2019 World Rowing Championships just around the corner, Jed is eager to prove why he deserves a place on the 2020 Australian Paralympic Team. He is in a fiercely competitive category, so it is not going to be easy, but he is ready to meet the challenge head-on.

Having only started wheelchair racing two years before making his Paralympic debut, two-time Paralympian Rheed McCracken is on track to become a legend of his sport. Although he was always determined to pursue a career in Para-athletics, it was a chance meeting with Channel 7 personality David ‘Kochie’ Koch that propelled Rheed into Paralympic stardom. Seated next to Kochie on a plane, the two struck up a conversation about Paralympic wheelchair racing great Kurt Fearnley, and Kochie, who has known Kurt for years, offered Rheed the opportunity of a lifetime when he challenged him to compete against Kurt in a wheelchair race in Sydney. Not long after, Rheed won one gold and four silver medals at the IWAS World Games and caught the attention of Australian selectors for the London 2012 Paralympic Games. This year Rheed is among Australia’s top contenders for a world title at the 2019 World Para-athletics Championships in Dubai, UAE. With this in mind, Rheed says that success is so much more than winning gold - it is about giving every race a “red hot crack.”

Chloe Esposito is quickly establishing herself as one of Australia’s rising sportswomen and inspirational game-changer. Pentathlon is no doubt in Esposito’s bloodline, with her father representing Australia in the Los Angeles 1984 Olympic Games and introducing her to the sport when she was only 10 years old In late 2018, Esposito had a hamstring operation weeks before she went onto win two world medals and ranked number 1 female heptathlete in the world. This was not her first major operation. In 2016, Esposito suffered from an Achilles tendon injury before creating Australian Olympic history by winning the modern pentathlon and setting a new Olympic record in Rio de Janeiro. We are behind Chloe all the way as she trains for Tokyo 2020.

Ashleigh McConnell etched her name in Paralympic history at her first Paralympic Games in 2016, when she and her women’s 4x100m freestyle relay teammates - Ellie Cole, Maddison Elliott and Lakeisha Patterson - won gold in world record time. Now training under two-time Olympian Kenrick Monk, Ashleigh is fully focused on the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. She is aiming to win an individual gold medal, and with years of experience racing alongside the best Para-swimmers in the world, she is certainly in with a chance.

Following in his family’s footsteps, Max Esposito took up Modern Pentathlon at the age of 13 after playing a variety of sports as a youngster. He won gold at both the 2013 Oceania Championships in Kazakhstan and at the 2014 International Youth A Championships in Great Britain giving him the opportunity to get his first taste of the Olympics at the 2014 Nanjing Youth Games. Max made a fantastic debut at the Rio Games finishing seventh overall. Despite finishing 29th in the fencing ranking round, he made up significant ground across the swim and the show jumping coming into the combined event in 17th place and crossing the finish line seventh. Now he is 22 and ready take on the Olympics next year.

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